Abstract: The Memoirs of Zhang Zhizhong is a self-report left by Zhang Zhizhong. It was jointly written by Zhang Zhizhong and Yu Zhanbang, who spent a decade on this work. It went through three big changes during the writing process. It not only described in detail activities of Zhang Zhizhong in politics, military, education and other aspects in the past sixty years, vividly showed his life of fighting for the country and the people, but also retained a wealth of original archival materials, which have important historical value. It is of great significance to the academic circles who want to deepen the research on Zhang Zhizhong's various thoughts, the social situation of Hunan in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, the development of the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the two anti-Japanese battles in Shanghai. But at the same time, influenced by subjective and objective factors, the book inevitably has some limitations.

Key words: Zhang Zhizhong, Memoirs of Zhang Zhizhong, value of historical materials